From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.1 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,DKIM_SIGNED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Subject: Shallow clone [Was Re: What's in git.git ] Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 22:10:18 +0530 Message-ID: <45520872.3090506@gmail.com> References: <7v8ximwrm3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 16:41:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=bCP83D9fdVbLMrcs8joZVpMKIlYdv4+ccBXHp280ucUJN0fJ83DwXqNoOjVAPFGq6Hqc/b0SxFZLgYhklyENzijY2eA0r+Qo6R8u17ahr3HdK+W/NHLpTekAymRqag4Fm55ceWXoZxctD9HKYn5mkO2EVE8Twvp4FAOcvcS44Y8= User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060918) In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GhqTZ-000434-FR for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 08 Nov 2006 17:40:33 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161237AbWKHQk3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Nov 2006 11:40:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161293AbWKHQk3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Nov 2006 11:40:29 -0500 Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com ([64.233.162.206]:24737 "EHLO nz-out-0102.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161237AbWKHQk2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Nov 2006 11:40:28 -0500 Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id z3so1502664nzf for ; Wed, 08 Nov 2006 08:40:28 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.35.33.15 with SMTP id l15mr5899213pyj.1163004028121; Wed, 08 Nov 2006 08:40:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.2.47? ( [59.92.130.252]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id a22sm7816281pye.2006.11.08.08.40.26; Wed, 08 Nov 2006 08:40:27 -0800 (PST) To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org David Lang wrote: > On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> [pu] >> >> Johannes's shallow clone work now should rebase cleanly on top >> of 'master' although I haven't done so yet. As he said >> himself the series is waiting for people who have needs for >> such a feature to raise hands. > > I haven't been watching this recently, but if this is what I understand > it to be (the ability to get a partial repository from upstream and work > normally from there with the result of data-mineing tools sometimes > reporting 'that's part of the truncated history' if they hit the cutoff) > consider my hand raised. > > there are a number of cases where I would be interested in following a > project as it moves forwards, but do not have the need to have the full > history (even with the good compression that a git pack provides, it's > still a significant amount of disk space and download time for large > projects) > I am trying to test this feature. Is there a documentation .git/shallow some where. Atleast what those entries mean ? I know in the mail johannes mentioned only core git will touch this file. But it should be ok to be descriptive like other files. (FETCH_HEAD) -aneesh